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1950 vintage lunch

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6 Jul – See full background on that '1880 port' .

On Wednesday I was treated to a trip down memory lane, a trip that lasted more than four hours at the lunch table. The picture here shows the glass-filled end of lunch while that below (Livingstone-Learmonth in the foreground, Sykes and Berry on the right) was taken at the beginning.

Ten years ago, just before the birth of this website and when the Eurostar London-Paris rail link was relatively novel, I went to Paris for lunch with seven members of the UK wine trade who, like me, were born...